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From Monday 9 to Monday 16 January, Turner Contemporary's upper floor gallery spaces will be closed to the public for the installation of Hamish Fulton: Walk and Turner and the Elements.

During exhibition changeover, you can still see Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss and Daniel Buren's Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape, Michael Craig Martin's Turning Pages and James Webb's Margate pier painting, all in our downstairs spaces.

The Shop and Café remain open from Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 6pm, with dinner service on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 January 6 - 10pm. An exhibition of works by Stephen Hughes, taken during the construction of Turner Contemporary, is also on show in our Café.

We are also showing a series of short films on a loop from 10am - 6pm each day, in the Foyle Rooms.

Please note: the whole building is closed on Mondays.


Changeover film series:
Buren and the Guggenheim
Author/Director: Stan Neumann
Producer: Les Poissons volants
Length: 54 minutes
French artist Daniel Buren is the creator of Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape, work in situ 2011, made for the Sunley Gallery at Turner Contemporary. This DVD follows the artist in the making of an installation for the Guggenheim Museum in New York for the exhibition The Eye of the Storm: Works in situ featuring a major new site-specific installation, Around the Corner (2000-05), which dynamically engaged the building's open, central space.

JMW Turner
Author/Director: Alain Jaubert
Producer: Coproduction Arte France
Length: 52 minutes
This film is not a simple biography, but rather a study, carried out in the company of a few specialists, around themes that are common to Turner's work including: Water (watercolours and seascapes); Fire and Land (English, French and Italian landscapes, the legacy of Claude Lorrain and the desert); Air (clouds and the dissolution of forms).

Hamish Fulton
Producer: Illuminations
Length: 26 minutes
Hamish Fulton describes himself as a 'walking artist'. For more than 40 years he has undertaken demanding walks in many parts of the world, and drawn on his experiences to create distinctive artworks using text, graphics and photographs. He aims to 'leave no trace' in the landscape, and he acknowledges that his art cannot represent the experience of a walk. 'What I'm interested in', he explains, 'is presenting a sort of skeleton of something, and then the viewer fills in what's missing, maybe from your own experience'.

Made alongside Hamish Fulton's large-scale 2002 exhibition at Tate Britain, this profile features both an extensive range of the artist's work made since 1971 and an engaging interview in which he outlines his ideas.

Hamish Fulton: Walk, the artist's first one-person exhibition in a UK public gallery since 2002, runs from 17 January - 7 May at Turner Contemporary.